A Gainesville attorney representing a 23-year-old Winder man filed a civil suit last week alleging that Barrow County Sheriff’s Office deputies responding to a suspicious activity call beat the man unnecessarily. The suit alleged that officers beat Christopher Jordan McDaniel to a black-out state in the front yard of his parents’ house and refused to provide him with necessary medical treatment in June of 2009.

Sheriff Jud Smith could not comment on the lawsuit, but stated in an email Tuesday that the department’s defense attorneys plan to vigorously pursue the allegations to the fullest.

In the Sheriff’s deputy’s report, responding officer Arnold reported that he and Deputy Hunnicutt arrived to an “unsafe and hostile” situation outside the Arnold home on Jefferson Highway June 7, 2009 with several people crowding around McDaniel, who was “extremely intoxicated and combative,” the deputy wrote.

Almost 2yrs later because the statute of limitations was about to run out, sounds like ol' boy needs some meth money. He did get beat up, but if he was too much for his family to handle, he might needed a whoopin

Could have taken him two years to file for several reasons. Might not have had money for a lawyer (a good lawyer anyway), probably has been intimidated into not suing and may have been hoping our DA would have handled it. Oh wait, I doubt anyone would put faith in our DA.

Do you know the difference between "pro bono" and contingency? It's obvious you don't know the meaning of racist -- since you can't even spell it. There should be a literacy test before posting privileges are extended. Of course that would disqualify 99% . . .

Yes I do. “Contingency” means : the quality or state of being contingent

Pro-bono means "for the public good", and is generally used to describe professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment as a public service. Thats is usually why they claim to file these frivolous lawsuits, although we all know it's really only about the money. From the racist (rasist, racist, however you spell it) NAACP website:

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination...blah, blah, blah.

Ironically, that comes right after the statement "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the united States..."

Probably had a hard time finding a lawyer after his family told them he had wrecked his friends truck that night at the concrete plant & had attempted suicide with a deadly weapon shortly after. His friends were holding him down to avoid having him jump in front of moving traffic... which is when the cops showed up. amazing how none of that has been mentioned!! I know him ever so personally & know how absolutely crazy he is, and someone needed to knock some sense into him. Go look at the two civil cases he has going on in barrow county & see how they contradict eachother.

I know this family and there are several reason for waiting on the lawsuit. One being that the county has been saying the whole time that they would make it right. It has gotten to the point that their word doesn't mean much! It doesn't really matter what everyone's negative opinion is of Jordan and this situation. He is a good guy, didn't deserve this. Combative or not, this was too much force!

Jordan is a good guy? You really must not know him to well. He was abusive to his girlfriend when she was pregnant & had once held a piece of glass up to her throat & threatened to kill her. OH! he's a stand up guy alright! Lying in lawsuit papers claiming he's deaf in one ear? He needs jaw surgery? He has brain damage? Oh PLEASE. He was a jackass & had mental problems before he got hit in the face. He can hear out of BOTH ears. He is missing a tooth. wow. He caused that for himself. Hey, I understand them wanting to get the medical bills paid but what it really comes down to is that his family is just plain GREEDY.

i guess i miss something by people, usually conservitives who dislike the aclu. they are the last true patriots in this country, they fight by filing a law suit to force people to follow the letter of the constitution period. hell i dont agree with them most of the time. but like them i do agree someone has to watch the government and i may not agree with you, but i put on a uniform to protect your right to not agree with me, as many many people did before me. i personally really dont care about this guy, but if he was assaulted and it was unwarranted, and he was not given medical care, i do have a problem with that. if you or i did it(assualt), rest assured we would be in the pokey. but that my friends will be hashed out in court.

well first off you have to get the documents involved in the case and that sometimes inviilves goingt to the Police station or bulding where the officers work that means venturing into area that may be hostile. second no these cases are not mostly pro bono as you state, it takes a lot to bring this type of suit more then if your neighbor beat you in front of witness and responding officer told you he didnt see it go file for warrant at youtr cost, justice is for sale just the cost is often paid by those least able to afford it with thier freedom even when less then guilty

Wow a drunken idiot feels like he was mistreated by the police? Thats new.

I would hate to be a cop and deal with crap like this. I'm sure they only did what was necesary to control the guy and the situation. And even if they did go overboard, how about not being a drunken idiot? It wouldn't have happened in the first place if he wasnt acting stupid enough to have the cops called in the first place.

People need to grow up and hold themselves accountable for their own ignorant actions.

Thanks to the short sightedness and greed of our local elected officials, in the future we the law abiding peopkle of Barrow county will have to suffer the indigity brought on by drunken idiot slobs on the last day that we were free of them.
Sunday's will soon be like friday night at the american legion.
The people should band together and vote down sunday alchol sales or the disrespect that this young man has shown for his family , his community and for himself will grow in ever incresing numbers ., as more and more dunken slobs take it upon themselves to act any ol wayt they want to regardless of consequences.
get a leg up in 2012.

Well honestly i couldn't care less if people are drunken idiots on any day of the week. I feel it's their right as a human to drink themselves to death if that's their desire. Just don't go crying to everyone that someone knocked you upside the head because you were acting stupid.

If you're gonna be a drunken idiot that's cool. Just at least accept responsibility for your actions. Good for the cops for trying to beat some sense into the dummy. I'm sure the guy has a drinking problem but instead of focusing on that his family is probably fired up about how he was treated. it's only adding fuel to the fire.

we are probably no that far apart in our opinions about drunkards. I believe that every drunkard should be beaten on a regular basis until they either change their ways or get fed up and move somewhere else.
I suppose the question then is who should be doing the beating. probably not the cops because of their propensity to go too far and involve the local govt. in a law suite ike this one . probably not the families of the drunkards because they are usually either too afraid of the drunk to do anything or too sympathetic. Hmmm, I wonder what kind of organization could do something like that for the people?

Okay - first things first, a fight was already taking place prior to officers arriving on scene. Who's to say injuries sustained weren't caused by the fight already in progress?? Secondly, it is to my understanding, Mr. McDaniel was "extremely intoxicated and combative" according to police reports - law enforcement officers are subjected to dangerous situations every day, and if Mr. McDaniel's injuries were caused at the hand of Barrow County, then there had to be circumstances that warranted that kind of force. Also, it was also stated in police reports that EMTs had looked over Mr. McDaniel outside Barrow Regional - if medical attention was imperative at the time, it would not have been denied... and per federal medical oath, sworn by Doctors and EMTs, it COULDN'T have!!
If I was the defendant in this case - I would counter this lawsuit for Defamation of Character.
Obviously, this lawsuit is a deseperate attempt to receive compensation for consequences Mr. McDaniel clearly deserved...

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